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Podcast: UK's Tech 500 Power List

In this week's C-suite podcast, Russell Goldsmith was joined in the studio by technology PR agency Tyto’s co-founders, Ellen Raphael and Brendon Craigie, discuss their Tech 500 Power List, which highlights top technology influencers in the UK. Also in the studio are three of top technology influencers featured in this years list.

The list was compiled by looking across a range of technology sub-sectors and influencer groups and the tech influencers were tracked across 20 sub sectors and nine different influencer groups in the UK. Areas that made someone influential included:

social media

press coverage (appear at least six times in the last 12 months and not from a press release)

industry events & keynote participation

owned media, i.e. through their own influential blog or via the business they work for.

Those on the list had to excel in all four areas quite frequently.

Single Mum on benefits to OBE & Government Advisor

Sue left school at 16, but went back to education 10 years later as a single mum with three kids living on a council estate and benefits. She then became Head of Department at the University of Westminster and set up BCSWomen, the UK’s first online network for women in Tech and ran the campaign to save Bletchley Park. She is now an OBE and a Government advisor on Digital Services, having recently met with the Prime Minister at No.10 Downing Street to talk about her #techmums courses.

Within the podcast, Sue talks about her campaign to save Bletchley Park:

Anne said that being an influencer brings responsibility to ensure that both sides of an argument are heard.

Jeremy referred to the part of Simon Sinek’s ‘Start with Why’ TEDtalk where Simon said that goal in business wasn’t to sell to people who need what you have, but to work with people who believe what you believe. So what Jeremy wants to discover in terms of influence is who those people are that believe the same things, because if you know who those people are, and you have got the influence, the important thing becomes what are you going to do with it.

Sue feels she has a mission to help disadvantaged women in particular to feel more confident in their lives, and she believes technology is a great enabler in that area.

Women in Technology

Anne doesn’t believe things have improved over the 30 years since she started in Technology and said there were few women then and that’s still the same today. She therefore feels that organisations need to try much harder to get more women into senior positions.

However, Jeremy said all his bosses at IBM are women and he is incredibly proud of that fact but the key issue for him is how to use his influence to inspire more women into tech.

Sue agreed to a point with Anne in that nothing much has changed since she set up her BSCWomen group, but apart from the stats, she feels that everything has in fact changed and that we will start to see an upsurge.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

He added that 5% of people in any given group can affect change within the other 95% but it’s incredibly difficult to measure exactly how many people someone like Sue has influenced. However, he said it’s about knowing which is the audience that you genuinely want to speak to, and that’s not necessarily the tens of thousands of followers you have on Twitter, it may only be two or three thousand of a really engaged audience.

All previous shows of the series are available on this website as well as Soundcloud, iTunes, TuneIn and Stitcher. There is also a growing community on Facebook and Twitter, where you can get involved in the discussion. Finally, if you subscribe to the show, please can you give it a positive rating and review on iTunes in particular as this helps it up the charts!

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